This may soon be a common sight in Scotland. Prisoners arriving at the “Solovetsky Special Purpose Prison Camp in 1927 or ’28.
This may soon be a common sight in Scotland. Prisoners arriving at the “Solovetsky Special Purpose Prison Camp in 1927 or ’28.
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One of the points Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn bangs home a lot in his classic work of historical research, The Gulag Archipelago, is that political prisoners in the Soviet gulag system were of lower status and were treated worse than actual criminals, such as rapists, thieves, and murderers. This is exactly what happens when a hostile elite takes over a nation. At best, it doesn’t trust the people. (more…)
